an apology for audio assignments in first-year writing classrooms
DESCRIPTION
A pedagogy workshop facilitated by Harley Ferris & Ryan Trauman @ the University of Louisville, 11 April 2013. In this workshop, we present an example assignment tailored specifically for First Year writing classes while discussing issues related to: the efficacy of audio assignments in first-year writing classrooms; how those assignments might be tailored to address specific course outcomes; how those assignments can be framed as highly rhetorical exercises; strategies for making the necessary resources available to students; possibilities for sharing/circulating/publishing audio assignments; and potential pitfalls for audio assignments in the writing classroom. And of course, we also spent some time at the end for Q&A.TRANSCRIPT
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An Apology for Audio Assignments in First-Year Writing Classrooms
Harley Ferris & Ryan TraumanUniversity of Louisville
11 April 2013
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Have you, yourself, ever produced an audio text?
Why? Why not? How’d that go?
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Have you ever assigned an audio text in your class?
Why? Why not? How’d that go?
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Why an audio assignment?
Distribution.
Necessary.Consumption.
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Assignment Design Considerations
Context, Outcomes, Resources
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Context
How does the assignment fit into the rest of your course?
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Outcomes
How does the assignment fit into the rest of your course?
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Resources
How does the assignment fit into the rest of your course?
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Example Audio Assignment
• Three Stages:– Preparation– Production– Distribution
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Example Audio Assignment
• Production– Stock elements– Scripts– Recording– Editing
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Example Audio Assignment
• Preparation– Topic drawn from other
class work.– Genre awareness gleaned
from examples.– Discussions of audio
affordances.
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Example Audio Assignment
• Distribution– Soundcloud– Facebook– Twitter– Email
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Questions?
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Thanks.